This is the official webpage of the Frosty Winter Weather Mod for ATS.
This mod simulates winter.
Key Features
Winter weather and environment
Snow/Sleet instead of rain
More sky textures
Frosty road textures
Winter daylight hours and temperatures
Random cloudy, misty and sunny weather
HDR bloom reduced
*Heavy Winter, Physics and other addons available for download
*Heavy Winter Addon provides snowy/slushy looking roads and a snow covered landscape with less grass.
*Physics – Makes the roads a little more slippy
Compatibility Latest Version: 1.38
Changes in v2.9
Updated for 1.38
Updated for Idaho dlc
New Heavy Winter addon
More sky textures
Many other fixes and improvements
Recommended Settings
HDR: Enabled
Color Correction: Enabled
Vegetation Detail: High
Grass Density: High
Important!!
Frosty is a winter weather and graphics mod and is not compatible with other weather, HDR and graphics mods such as RGM, NaturaLux, Project Next-Gen, Filmic Lighting etc.
Frosty should be placed on top in Mod Manager.
(Ad Free download – Costs $1 – Includes all addons)
Download Frosty v2.9 for 1.38
(721mb)
(Free download with ads)
Download Frosty v2.9 for 1.38
(Sharemods 721mb)
Optional Addons (Place Above Frosty)
Download Heavy Winter Addon v2.9
(Sharemods 57mb) (Adds snowy roads and landscape)
Download Physics Addon v2.9
(Sharemods 17kb) (Makes the roads a little more slippery)
Download No Foggy Weather Addon v2.9
(Sharemods 42kb) (No foggy weather except mornings)
Darker Night Skies
(Sharemods 3mb) (Can be used with any of my ETS2 & ATS season mods)
Donations
You can donate $2 here
You can donate $5 here
You can donate $10 here
Older Versions
Download Link v2.8 for 1.37 (Sharemods 656mb)
https://sharemods.com/u2pyii9hhgrx/frosty_ats_v2_8.scs.html
Physics v2.8 (Sharemods 20kb) – https://sharemods.com/wupf66ib60a4/frosty_physics_ats_2_8.scs.html
Download Link v2.7 for 1.36 (Sharemods 652mb)
https://sharemods.com/qwwrrh1920ho/frosty_ats_v2_7.scs.html
Physics v2.7 (Sharemods 20kb) – https://sharemods.com/xpr2178libdb/frosty_physics_ats_2_7.scs.html
Download Link v2.6 for 1.35 (Sharemods 605mb)
https://sharemods.com/iit3644dfnnv/frosty_ats_v2_6.scs.html
Physics v2.6 (Sharemods 22kb) – https://sharemods.com/f2js1kgrw8vy/frosty_physics_ats_2_6.scs.html
Credits: Grimes
Hey! There will be release for 1.35 version?
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Yes, hopefully in a couple of weeks.
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That is good news.
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Could you take a look at the physics too? I like that they provide a challenge but as of 1.35 I go into a self-propelling spiral of death more often then not. Anyway thanks for your great work.
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Thanks, I’ll update the physics as well.
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Hi, Can you make a winter mod for ATS for update 1.35?
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Should be updated next week.
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Awesome mod !
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Can you make a spring weather mod for ATS?
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Maybe next year.
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I was beginning to think that I was the only one who asked that question, obviously I’m not, lol. Thanks for that answer. At least now, I know it’s possible.
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Hey Grimes, just wanted to say thanks for the ATS Winter Mod update.
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No probs, that’s all my mods updated for 1.35 on both ATS and ETS2.
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Thank you for updating all your mods so quickly ! I appreciate the amount of time you invest into keeping your mods compatible. I’m curious to see what you may create in the future
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Thank you, this update was particularly time consuming so I’m glad to have them all done 🙂
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I’ve tried looking it up and I didn’t find anyone else who has this problem, or at least they’re not aware of it, but here we go:
I’ve found an error with the ATS version of this mod (and possibly the other season mods, but I haven’t tested them yet). The problem is, is that if I do a medium to long haul, the distance counting messes up. What I mean, is that for example, I did a job from Kennewick to Elko, which would be around 600+ miles. However, when I complete the delivery, the results screen shows a lot less than that, like 450 miles instead of the actual lenght. This wouldn’t be a problem, if it wouldn’t mess up other things, like the XP you get for the distance and the amount of fuel you have. I first encountered this error in 1.34, when I used the 1.33 compatible version of the mod. At the time, I thought it was because it was for an older version (even though people said that it works perfectly in the then recent game), but since the newest mod version IS for 1.35, I don’t know anymore.
Could you look into this, to see what could cause this? Thanks.
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I don’t see how on earth this mod or any of my season mods would have any effect on distance being recorded in the game, all these types of mods do is change the weather and graphic textures. Perhaps only an economy mod or something like that might have an effect on distances but I’m not even sure about that, might be another mod or just a game bug.
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I have seen it with people happening, seems to be more related to VTC if one uses VTC (if you do not know what it is then you do not use it) or game itself then that it is a mod causing this.
I would suggest looking on scs forum and post your issue there or look for it, plenty people who can help determine if it might be a bug of the game and if so where it needs to be reported.
The people i heard about they also have it on a profile without mods.
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i have downloaded both mods and only the physics mod show in the mod manager and i don’t know what would be causing it
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If it’s not showing in Mod Manager then there may have been an issue with the download, you might have to try again, the file should be called frosty_ats_v2_6.scs and it’s around 600mb in size.
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Could you make a Heavy Add On for ATS ?
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It would only really apply to some parts of Washington and Oregon, most of the rest of the map is desert, I think I’ll wait until some more northerly states have been added.
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There are quite a few places in Utah that get heavy snow in winter, but you’re right, once SCS starts with Montana, the Dakota’s and the mid-west states like Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin. They may do Colorado next year though, and that is a Rocky Mountain state that gets heaps of snow.
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I was coming here to ask about heavy as well, good to know. and thanks for the great frosty work of yours.
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Thanks 🙂
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Hey Grimes.
Thanks for all your efforts.
Don’t know what we would do without your mods.
Tell us…. do you have an apprentice to take over should yoy ever be abducted by Cheerleader aliens ?
Lots of love….. Your Community…. ♥️🤗😎
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Antone any idea if SCS are planning to go North into Alaska and Canada ?
Could result in seasons becoming a thing in the game.
Ice Road Trucking!
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It will take a very long time for SCS to start Canada, and not much chance of Alaska being done at least until 2030. However, ProMods has a small team that has started to map British Columbia, as part of ProMods Canada. No idea how long it will take them, but at least it will be able to be accessed from the Washington DLC. Considering that their first mod, which was ProMods “Scandinavia” took two guys 8 months to map Sweden, Norway, and a little bit of Finland in 2013, and British Columbia mapping started a month or two ago, so the first part of ProMods Canada, British Columbia may be finished by March or April of 2020.
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mod modero not working there in mod management does not appear
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If the mod isn’t showing in Mod Manager you may have to try downloading it again, after downloading you should end up with the file frosty_ats_v2_6.scs which is 619,877 KB in size.
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Hey! There will be release for 1.36 version?
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Yes, I’m working on it at the moment.
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How nice. Then I look forward to the new version being completed. I like your work. Keep up with what you’re doing.
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Thank you grimes, appreciate you brother
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Hey! There will be release for1.36 version?
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Yes, I’m working on it.
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I tried the 1.35 Frosty mod in 1.36 -nothing crashed but my FPS, usually solid at 50-60, dropped to the 20’s. So, I’ll wait.
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I use the Grimes seasonal mods precisely to the day that the seasons officially change, so I won’t put the Frosty mods in ETS2 or ATS until December 21, the official start of winter. I’m on the Early Fall/Autumn mods which started on September 23. It is my intention to activate the Late Fall/Autumn mod in November 10, which will give me enough time to enjoy that mod for around 40 days before I have to put the Frosty mod, which I’m very much looking forward to activating in DX11, it should be spectacular to witness.
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It doesn’t show up for me on 1.35 for some reason. All the seasons mods, idk why.
The only thing that does is the physics for winter.
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Make sure you have downloaded them correctly, for example with Frosty after downloading you should have a file which is around 1 gig in size and ends in .scs
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Hello. I just wanna ask when will be propably available this mod for 1.36? (in week, month,..) Thank u
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A couple of weeks.
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cant wait for frosty ats 1.36.keep up the outstanding work
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how do you install the mods?
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Download the mod, place it in your mod folder, usually Documents/American Truck Simulator/mod, then in the game activate it in Mod Manager.
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thank you very much for your great mods! frosty winter with physics is my favorite mod in ATS
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Many thanks 🙂
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Your work is so good, so I have to ask, do you have a ATS Frosty Winter 1.36 version in the pipeline ?
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I’m hoping to release the new version this weekend, we’ll see.
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Yes, it would be nice to have the Winter also in ETS2.
Thank you for the Summer Mod for 1.36, but I think, was better first at this Time of the Year to bring first the Winter. 😊👍
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Summer was released first for ETS2 because it doesn’t have to be tested in the Black Sea dlc, the others do.
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Does just add areas up north? If not, do you think at some point you’d add a seasons mod that makes has the weather/vegetation change, or something like where the Florida “level” is summer weather, and SC “level” spring weather, Deleware “level” autumn, and cold weather farther up north?
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Unless SCS make major changes to the game then none of that is possible.
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I think that weather as it applies to seasons is an important item on the SCS ‘wishlist’, the problem is that SCS’s wishlist is a mile long so far. Year by year, their wishlist grows longer and longer. The good thing is they are still hiring staff, which means that they will be able to whittle down that wishlist more as time passes.
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The game would need quite a big overhaul in order to bring in seasons which is why they always talk about it as a future project and put it on the back burner. It’s not really a weather issue, it’s a texture issue, they would have to find a way to introduce different textures for different seasons without massively bloating the game.
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Thank you
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Thank you for updating this brilliant mod to 1.36, Grimes! I can’t play ATS without your season mods. 🙂
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Thanks Michael 🙂
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Thank you for the wonderful update.
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No probs, thanks 🙂
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Excellent mod, great work thanks. Just wish it wasn’t via sharemods – it locks my browser & brings up those ‘computer virus’ messages every time I try to download the physics mod.
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I believe that that could be a false positive. It could also be an ad. It is the ads that are causing it. Since I download so many mods from Sharemods, I go for their Premier Membership which gets rid of the ads. It costs 4.99 Euros and you get a months downloads with no ads therefore, no possibility of a false positive. As with any downloads, there is always a chance of malware ‘hitching a ride’ on a download via an ad. The actual file you are downloading from Sharemods is free of any malware, it is the ads that are the cause of any potential damage.
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Thanks Patrick, I have managed to download it safely. The adverts – I’m sure you’re right, they are just adverts, not virus – somehow ‘infest’ my browser so that they appear every time I switch it on. But I managed to close the popups immediately before they had chance to load, and was then able to download the file and keep the adverts from taking over.
Not complaining, and again I’m grateful for the mod, it’s great work – was just a bit disconcerting when the browser seems to be ‘taken over’ in that way.
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Do you know/can you say (if you’ve been in contact with TMP) if Truckers MP will finally add your ATS winter mod (this one I’m commenting on, obviously) to ATS MP this year? They’ll obviously add your ETS2 version to ETS2 MP, like they do every year, but I really want to know/am really hoping they’ll add your ATS Winter Mod to ATS MP.
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TruckersMP don’t use winter mods with ATS unfortunately.
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And you don’t have any say in that at all? You aren’t able to ask them to support it? It doesn’t make much sense that they support your mod for ETS2, but they refuse to support it for ATS.
Your winter mods are gorgeous and it’d be awesome if TMP would finally support it for ATS too.
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Which mods TruckersMP allow on their platform is entirely up to them, I don’t get involved in that decision process. I can tell you that the amount of downloads the ATS version of Frosty gets is tiny compared to how many I get for the ETS2 version, so perhaps that shows that the interest just isn’t there at the moment, maybe when ATS expands and has many more northern states then that will change, but that’s way into the future.
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Their refusal to allow the Frosty mod for ATS is the main reason for my disinterest in playing T/MP. The other reason I don’t play there is that it would feel totally unnatural to play with only trucks on the roads, without cars, vans, and coaches on the road to make the environment seem more real.
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Mhhh strange. With 1.36 i can not use Frosty for ATS properly. The game starts stuttering / lagging – especially when more traffic is underways (i.e. in Cities)
However – Late Autumn / Mild Winter works without these issues.
Can you check if there’s some performance killer in the current frosty?
I also tried diabling all other mods including traffic and density mods and lowering graphics. Nothing helps unless frosty is disabled.
But with your LA/MW i can run with several mods on High/400% without issues. Not even in the rushhours.
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I played Frosty ATS last night and it worked well, no discernible lag, so I can’t say what is happening. I believe that the mod is being updated as a version for 1.36, but the fact that the 1.35 version works with the current ATS means that maybe there might be tiny issues that might make it work differently for individuals, I just don’t know.
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Frosty for ATS shouldn’t have an effect on frame rates, I didn’t notice any, except perhaps during snowy weather, you’d need to test with and without on the same part of the map, you may just have been in a graphically heavy part of the map.
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Grimes – “I can tell you that the amount of downloads the ATS version of Frosty gets is tiny compared to how many I get for the ETS2 version, so perhaps that shows that the interest just isn’t there at the moment”
I think that the ETS2 Winter Mod has so many downloads because Truckers MP has supported it year, after year, after year, which also piles on top of the people downloading it for singleplayer. If Truckers MP would start supporting your ATS Winter Mod every year as well, I bet the downloads for it would jump quite a bit.
Over the last few years, I have seen many people on the Truckers MP Forums asking for ATS MP to get Winter Mod support each year. There is an interest in it, but Truckers MP continues to neglect ATS in many ways and they continually refuse to support Winter Mod for it.
I know you said there isn’t anything you can do, I understand that and I’m not upset with you. I love your mods and I’m very glad and appreciative that you support ATS. I… guess I’m just venting my frustration someplace where there aren’t a bunch of Truckers MP fanboys defending their every move.
Anyways… Keep up the awesome work, Grimes. I can’t remember if I ever asked before, but is there any chance that ATS will get a Spring Weather mod in the future?
(Had to make a new comment because I can’t seem to reply further to the existing comment chain.)
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Even without the downloads I get from TruckerMP the ETS2 version still gets many more downloads than the ATS version. Maybe if more people ask on their forum to allow it they might change their mind. As for Spring, I’m not sure. it’s very difficult for me at the moment to update and improve the mods I already have, I might not just have the time to add another one.
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Will there be an update for ats 1.36?
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Already been updated.
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Is there a heavy that works for 1.36
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No, heavy winter is not available for the ATS version.
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Maybe when SCS does Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, The Dakotas, Wisconsin. Basically, the states in northern USA get the most snow. SCS has only done 3 states that get a fair amount of snow, Washington, Oregon, and Utah.
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Thank you so much for this mod! Doing my 12 jobs for the World of Trucks christmas event in snow covered Oregon and Washington was one of the best experiences I had in my virtual trucker life.
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Thanks very much 🙂
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I feel the same way. I used to dread the time when Fall and Winter arrived IRL, because the game is in perpetual summer. When I found Grimes’s Early Autumn/Fall mod and especially the ATS Frosty mod and the Frosty Winter Weather mod for ETS2, I felt like I had been given a Christmas present that would last for decades. It has given new life to the two SCS games and Fall and Winter are now Seasons that I actually look forward to playing ATS and ETS2 in now.
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I don’t know what I am doing wrong, but it’s not working. I disabled all my graphics mods and such.. any suggestions?
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Have you updated to the latest version of ATS, what happens when you try to load the game?
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Love your frosty winter mod for ATS. THANK YOU for your hard work in making the game so much more realistic.
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Many thanks 🙂
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Hey Grimes why is there no traffic in ats? cause i have this in and my traffic is set to 1.0 tks will just have to take this out
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Frosty doesn’t have any effect on traffic.
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Firstly, ABSOLUTELY wonderful mods!! I use the two for ATS 1.36 on the TruckersMP site, and it has been like a whole new game. At the first intersection I approached after installing the mod, I slid right through it… trailer and all. LOL
I wanted to ask about the physics… Does the mod have bridges become “icier” and therefore slipperier before non-elevated highways? Also, does the mod simulate black ice on the roadways?
Again, amazing work and THANK YOU so much for this mod!!
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Thanks very much, unfortunately what the game allows you to do with the physics is quite limited apart from uniformly making them a bit slippier.
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Hey Grimes did ya know when you install this in ats you have to start a new profile? this happened to me today then yesterday i had to reinstall ats messed up my game…you should look at this problem get it fixed tks
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Frosty and any other graphics mod doesn’t have any effect on your save game or profile, you can activate and deactivate them without any problem, if you’re having issues it’ll be down to something else.
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That is weird, i can enable ad disable without getting my profile messed up/without having to make new profile. Do you run other graphic/weather mods perhaps?
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Hey grimes got the mod fixed so no need to worry tks great mod cheers
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For me frosty dont work with Canadream map and C2C map, i mean it work but in some cities there some texture issues, like you dont have loaded road and the game crash, i have this problem in Klamath falls in oregon. When i turn off Frosty problem dissapear
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Unfortunately Frosty for ATS isn’t configured for maps, only the default map and map dlc’s.
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Ohh ,okey thank you for help.
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I use C2C/CanaDream/Viva Mexico and Frosty ATS works fine. I just did a trip from New Orleans LA to Prince George BC and it worked fine.
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@Patrick Musson for me work also fine but in Klamath falls i have road misisng because of frosty
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thanks bro it’s working perfectly in my version 1.35,,
kindly add some more mods like trucks and UTAH map plzz.. Thanks
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Hey can you update mod to 1.37 and also add heavy add-on i drive od Dalton highway and i would apriciate heavy snow for some more realisticklook
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This mod will most likely be updated next week, the default version will have a more wintry look
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Hi Grimes, really like your winter mod. However, there is a crash. It happened one time but it froze and no crash report, so may or may not have been this mod. Afterwards I got two simultaneous crashes with a report. It happened north of Cedar, Utah. Right were the highway divides while heading south. Here’s the errors in my log just before the crash:
00:01:42.421 : [fs] Failed to open file ‘/automat/02/02f9e86bbec9db12.mat’ in the read_only mode.
00:01:42.421 : [resource_task] Can not open ‘/automat/02/02f9e86bbec9db12.mat’
00:01:42.555 : Leaved and detail vegetation instances may use only ‘eut2.leaves’ effect however ‘dry.tex’ was found!
00:01:42.555 : Unable to adapt material 0 for model ‘/model/vegetation/grass/fruits/apples1.pmd’
00:01:42.555 : Leaved and detail vegetation instances may use only ‘eut2.leaves’ effect however ‘dry.tex’ was found!
00:01:42.555 : Unable to adapt material 0 for model ‘/model/vegetation/grass/fruits/apples3.pmd’
00:01:42.555 : Leaved and detail vegetation instances may use only ‘eut2.leaves’ effect however ‘dry.tex’ was found!
00:01:42.555 : Unable to adapt material 0 for model ‘/model/vegetation/grass/fruits/apples2.pmd’
00:01:42.577 : d:\buildbot\slaves\win_slave\final_build_ats_137_windows_bin_steam_x64\build\prism\src\p3core\collections\arrays\arrays_base_impl.h(523): ?element_at@?$array_t@Vsmart_proto_t@prism@@@prism@@QEAAPEAVsmart_proto_t@2@_K@Z: Index outside array boundaries.
Not sure if that helps.
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Thanks for reporting, looks like I missed some automat files so will have to update the mod, you can use this fix, place it above Frosty https://sharemods.com/e8lqoshchuwh/frosty_v2_8_fix.scs.html
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Thanks for that quick fix!
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Thanks for updated for 1.38! It’s been hot lately, so this is refreshing to see. lol
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